israel says 50 rockets were fired into southern israel in that time and it launched further strikes on gaza in return. sirens have been sounded in tel aviv where two rockets were fired on the city. now to an israeli border town to join my colleague ben. >> rockets have been fired into this town a few kilometers from israel-gaza border. the sirens sounded five minutes ago. before that, an hour ago. normally the rockets are intercepted by the israel anti- missile shield, but one of them did get through to my lef andt and landed in open ground, not injuring anyone. two have landed in the tel aviv area with no casualties. but it does show the increase ranged that some of the rockets being fired out of gaza now have. the faja rocket which is applied by iran is thought to have a range of 75 kilometers -- supplied by iran. israel's military offensive in gaza continues. >> soon after sunrise, people came out to assess the damage. after a long night of air strikes in gaza, israel hits up to 150 targets across the palestinian territory. there appear to be few casualties. this was a hamas interio